Downloaded Fedora 7 (full DVD and Live CD KDE-based images) and installed the full one. Looks great, works fast. From what I have noticed immidiately – my WiFi seems to work out of the box, yum works much faster. The rest is pretty much the same, apart of new art-work everywhere and less stuff to update (fresh software everywhere).
Category: Technology
ICQ Russian Encodings
For the past few days I am experiencing huge problems with Russian encodings in ICQ (using GAIM). On one hand – I am fed up with it, but on the other, I can not do anything with this since a lot of people are using ICQ to talk to me :( Please, if you have any chances, try to use GTalk or Skype :)
Status update
It\’s been a while since I last posted here and I don\’t feel like posting something huge here this time, so here is just a short life update:
- Wrote all college exams (4 of them):
- Artificial Intelligence – this is the only exam I feel like I failed. The subject is really boring, the teaches does not seems to be confident in the topic, exams were prepared by other professor who is very good in subject and probably did not consider that (as I believe) we were taught not in the best way. In addition the class is kinda boring. As I have concluded – it is like maths for me, but while in maths I know that I am totally stupid, here you think for the whole semester that the class goes fine and at the end you find yourself unbelievable stupid.
- Software Engineering – this one went fine. A class is very boring and implies a lot of bureaucracy related to IEEE standards, but I think I managed it quite good mostly because IEEE has a lot in common with ISO stuff which I know not that bad.
- Computer Architecture and Organization – went very easy because the amount of information given was very limited and a lot of it came out of previously passed Digital Systems.
- Object Oriented Programming (based on Java) – went pretty good as well due to some programming experience I have as well as familiarization with many programming languages. One more time proved to myself that Java is not what I like – Perl is the best.
- Preparing for the next semester – need to pay quite an amount of money for the college but already have some options. Thanks to all people who help me in this matter.
- Learning AJAX technology and have a post about it on configfun.com here.
- Preparing for the visit to immigration :( Hate this part of being in Cyprus, but have no other ways yet.
- Planning to go for skiing one day into Troodos where there is some snow already. Hopefully my skiing equipment will be delivered to Cyprus by a friend of mine who is now in Moscow.
ConfigFun.com – Tech Blog
As I have mentioned some time before, I was planning to set up a separate blog about technology related things. Few days ago such blog was successfully set up here: http://configfun.com. From now on, I think that the number of technical posts will reduce on my personal blog in favor of configfun.
Please note that I am not the only author at that blog, so I think it will be more fun for all of us :)
Working on Nagios perl module
I am currently working on creating a perl module do deal with Nagios configuration. The existing Nagios-Object package is quite limited, outdated and not that fully implemented. I checked it up and decided to rewrite it using my way.
Currently I am using Class-Generate package to help me with creating classes for Nagios object definitions and I already managed to write a parser which takes a path of nagios main configuration file, finds all links to object definition files and parses all definitions. One\’s parsed, the definitions are stored as objects with all accessorts/mutators available.
I am also implementing object linkage so that the relations of objects can be used easily. Currently most of the stuff is already working fine.
In addition I am planning to implement the write function so that it is possible to create problem text config files with object definitions. Also thinking on getting on status log parsing.
The idea behind is to create a web admin panel for Nagios and extend the functionality, plus maybe I will do a new web frontend for Nagios, since the one given is not that good (anymore). I already have some web stuff working (based on perl, Catalyst, CGI-FromBuilder and Template-Toolkit)